Hitchin sections on $3$-dimensional Sasakian manifolds

Abstract

By using non-abelian Hodge correspondence on compact Sasakian manifolds, we investigate analogous constructions of Hitchin sections of rank $2$ on $3$-dimensional compact Sasakian manifolds. We obtain canonical deformations of $\widetilde{S{L}_2(\mathbb{R})}$-Sasakian structures giving a diffeomorphism from the vector space of basic quadratic differentials onto a connected component of the space of equivalent classes of sasakian structures of negative basic first Chern classes and topologically trivial CR structures equipped with an appropriate manifold structure.

arXiv comment19 pages